Purchase the Cinema Q Festival Pass and experience the entire Cinema Q Film Festival from top to bottom at a rate that can't be beat! $65 for Non-Members and $60 for DFS Members
The Festival pass gets you in to as many films during Cinema Q as you like and includes the Opening Night & Closin

Get the Festival Pass and experience the entire J'Adore! Focus on French Language Cinema from top to bottom at a rate that can't be beat!
$60 for Non-Members and $50 for DFS Members
The Festival pass gets you in to as many films during our focus as you like and includes the Opening Night &

Join the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Denver Film Society for the ultimate in Sci-Fi fun and get all four films at one low price! By purchasing the series pass you'll get five films for $65 General Public and $50 for Denver Film Society Members.

MUST END Thursday, August 29th at the Sie FilmCenter
Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games in London. Setting out against impossible odds both Jock and the te

Friday, October 4th at 7pm w/Producer-Director in attendance
Narrated by actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah, Arise is both a documentary and an ethnographic study of women from around the world who share a profound intellectual and spiritual understanding of what it tak

50th anniversary screening of a brand new 35mm print!
Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D. Rip

7pm Wednesday, August 8 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
with post film discussion led by Nicole Garneau, PhD, curator of human health
In the year 2035, convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) volunteers reluctantly to be sent back in time by scientists to discover the origin of a deadl

MUST END Thursday, October 11th Denver FilmCenter!Digital presentation - Inspired by a true story that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When classmate Camille (Louis

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Friday, September 5th at 9:30pm.
Come and celebrate Programming Manager Ernie Quiroz's 1 year anniversary!
From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. The Tree of Life is the impression

MUST END March 1 at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - PLEASE NOTE THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT FEATURE THE NOMINEE "GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS" DUE TO LICENSING ISSUES:
Incident in New Baghdad – 25 minutes – USA – James Spione
One of the most notorious incidents of t

MUST END Thursday, August 16th!Digital presentation - True Wolf is the story of a wolf called Koani. Koani, with the help of her human companions, became an ambassador for her species, traveling the country to help raise awareness about wolves. True Wolf is about Koani’

MUST END Thursday, August 23rd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax Digital presentation - Anne Émond’s debut feature is a bold and intimate and erotic study of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to his apartment for sex. Afterwards, instead of parting ways,

Please join the Denver Film Society and Three Tomatoes Catering in celebrating 35 years of the best in food, film and culture in Denver.
Date: Saturday, September 15th
Location: Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Doors Open at 7 pm
Attire: Dress to impress with a dash of red
Get the red carpe

MUST END Thursday, May 24th!35mm presentation - In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:4

MUST END Thursday, June 14th!Digital presentation - A realistic, funny and at times, heart-breaking look at dating, love and friendship told from the point of view of Tyler, a perpetual bachelor. Tyler follows a set of rules specifically designed to help him avoid emotional attachmen

Friday, June 22, 9:15pm
CLICK HERE for a full J'adore Festival Pass!
Based on an autobiographical novel by philosopher Éliette Abécassis, A Happy Event stars Louise Bourgoin as Barbara, a student unprepar

MUST END Thursday, April 19th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader r

7:00 P.M. Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Denver Film Center/Colfax
Stan Brakhage is celebrated around the globe as a visionary film artist. His oeuvre includes more than 350 films—made using hand-held camera and rapid editing techniques, collages and elaborate hand-painting on the surface of the

MUST END Thursday, March 22nd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man, Albert Nobbs, in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the

MUST END Thursday, April 5th!Digital Presentation - ALL IN — THE POKER MOVIE tells the exciting story of poker's renaissance in the first decade of the new millennium, from a game once played only by grandparents and teenagers unable to get a date on Friday night to a nationally tele

The American artist Danielle de Picciotto has finished a new experimental movie about her last night in NYC in 1987 just before she moved to Berlin, Germany.
The bizarre events which took place on that dark evening are not only meant as a personal memoir in her film but as a metaphor for the gro

MUST END Thursday, January 5th!35mm presentation - Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious Screenwriting Award, ANOTHER HAPPY DAY is the feature film debut of writer and director Sam Levinson. The film is a powerful, darkly comic story of a woman struggling to find her pla

French director Michel Hazanavicius has dared to make a silent film in black and white. Set in Hollywood in 1927, it echoes Singin' in the Rain and A Star Is Born as a matinee idol on the wane falls for a female extra destined for stardom in the talkies.

Sunday, October 28th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Presented by ASIFA-ColoradoOrganic and Grown Locally. This presentation of animated shorts runs the gamut of subject matter as well as medium and technique. The shorts include independent and student projects as well as work from

MUST END May 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM

MUST END Thursday, July 26th at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax
Co-Director Ross Finkel IN-PERSON for Friday, July 20th's 7:10 show and Saturday, July 21st's 2:00 show! Digital Presentation - This compelling documentary narrated by John Leguizamo is a gritty and never before seen look

MUST END Thursday, March 14th!35mm presentation - Winner! Grand Jury Prize for best Dramatic Feature - Sundance Film Festival and Winner! Camera D'Or - Cannes Film Festival -In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year

MUST END Thursday, September 27th!Digital presentation - Beauty Is Embarrassing is a funny, irreverent, joyful and inspiring documentary featuring the life and current times of one of America’s most important artists, Wayne White.
Raised in the mountains of Tennessee, Wayne W

7:00pm Sept 13th at the Davis Auditorium (DU)
Chance is a simple-minded man who has been isolated his whole life, living in a man's house and tending his garden. When the benefactor dies, the gardener is thrust into the cruel world and by acts of fate, he becomes a prominent and influential

MUST END Thursday, July 5th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - The historical drama Bel Ami, based on the 1885 novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant, is the story of Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson), who travels through 1890s Paris. From cockroach-ridden garret

8pm Mon Feb 27Between Two Worlds is a personal investigation using five unique stories that go beyond the superficial to reveal the passionate debates over identity and generational change that are taking place within today’s American Jewish community. Powerful and divergent feelings

Colorado Premiere! DOUBLE FEATURE INCLUDES both Biophilic Design and Passive Passion!
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US PASSIVE HOUSE CONFERENCE
Friday, Sept. 28 @ 7pm
Reception to follow
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn.

5pm Sat, March 10th
Director Holly Mosher In-Person
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. BONSAI PEOPLE celebrates Yun

MUST END Thursday May 31st!35mm presentation - The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated Two Cars, One Night, BOY is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Mi

Sunday, September 2nd at 7pm on the BIG SCREEN at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax - FREE ADMISSION! Drink Specials! NO Meth!
About Season 5
Don't miss season 5's explosive mid finale (the second part won't air until 2013)!!!
Breaking Bad returns to AMC for the first part of its final season o

Join the Denver Film Society and Curious Theatre for an exclusive screening of Rothko's Rooms May 30th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ROTHKO’S ROOMS, produced and directed by David Thompson is a journey into the world of Mark Rothko (1903 to 1970), who in the period from 1940 into 1960’s w

35mm presentation - In this Francois Truffaut thriller, Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Moreau tracks down all five culprits, sexually enslaves them, and then engineers their deaths. Not the typica

MUST END Thursday, March 8th
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film!Digital Presentation - Perhaps the year’s most stunning international debut, Michael R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky V

MUST END Thursday, October 18th!35mm presentation - A tale of competition at its most cut-throat, BUTTER surveys the raw ambition of Laura Pickler (Jennifer Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell), Iowa's long-reigning champion butter carver. For 15 years, Laura has relished he

Saturday, June 23, 4:15pm
CLICK HERE for a full J'adore Festival Pass!Café de Flore, inspired by a jazz album of the same name, chronicles a love story between a man and a woman in 2011 Montréal, and bet

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print plays August 17 - 2335mm presentation - In this sequel to WHISPER OF THE HEART, a quiet suburban schoolgirl, Haru, is pitched into a fantastical feline world and must find her inner strength to make her way back home. Walking with her friend after a dre

NOW PLAYING through January 3rd at the Sie FilmCenterDigital presentation - In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it "the crime of the century."

Must end Thursday, June 21st at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Chely Wright: Wish Me Away is the story of Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. Over three years, the filmmakers were given extraordinary access to Chely's struggle and her un

MUST END Thursday, July 5th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Spectacular NEW Digital Restoration!HD Digital presentation - Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise, the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theate

MUST END Thursday, August 16th!35mm presentation - Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another riveting documentary on that country’s ever-changing economic landscape—this time through the lens of sports. In China Heavyweight, Chang

MUST END Thursday, April 5th!Digital Presentation - CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME tracks the adventures, misadventures and experiences of three aliens from the planet Zots, sent down to Earth on a mission to rid themselves of romantic emotions, which are considered toxic

MUST END Thurs, Feb 2 at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poe

MUST END Thursday, December 6th!Digital presentation - Tommy Cowley is a young father inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since his wife was brutally attacked by a gang of a twisted feral children. Trapped in the dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown, he finds himself terrorised by the sa

Cinema Q Film Festival Closing Night Film - Sunday, July 22nd at 7pm
Sponsored by Charles Schwab
Oscar®-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker star as Stella and Dot, an aging couple who escape from a nursing home in Maine and drive to No

Colorado Premiere!
Friday, Sept. 7 @ 4:30pm
Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome will take us on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver, from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast. A core group of architects embraced the Coast with its particular

One Night Only! Monday, March 5th at 7pm. Director and other guests in-person!Colfax & 15th is about a young hood, Isaac, turned bounty hunter with a newborn on the way, trying to reform his life. Isaac is caught within a hidden web of corruption as he begins to unravel the shady o

MUST END Thursday May 31st!Digital presentation - The Color Wheel is the story of JR, an increasingly transient aspiring news anchor, as she forces her disappointing younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment. P

Sunday, August 26th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Salon curator and moderator Robert Denerstein and Ron Henderson, co-founder of the Denver Film Festival and its long-time director take a look back at the 1970s, regarded by many critics as a spectacularly fertile time for movies. Denerstei

Sunday, April 29th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
The April edition of the Cinema Salon will call attention to an element in the filmmaking process that often goes unnoticed. Whether overly manipulative, subtle or perfectly matched with dramatic content. music can be one of the stron

Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:30pm in Henderson's Lounge at the Denver FilmCenter
Join Cinema Salon curator and moderator Robert Denerstein for a preview of this year's Oscars at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 22, at the FilmCenter/Colfax. Joining Denerstein for an evening of carping, praise and celebrati

Sunday, July 29th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Hosted by Robert Denerstein
Three of Denver’s best-known art gallery owners join Cinema Salon curator and host Robert Denerstein for a look at movies that shed light on the aesthetic standards by which they approach their jobs.. Robin

Thursday, January 26th at 7:30pm in Henderson's Lounge at the Denver FilmCenter
One FREE drink at from the Henderson's bar with ticket purchase!
The Colorado Cinema Salon kicks off a new year with another in its popular "Movies In My Life" series. This time, Rabbi Joseph R. Black, of Denver

Sunday, March 25th at 2pm - Hosted by Robert Denerstein
Denver District Attorney Mitchell R. Morrissey joins Cinema Salon curator and moderator Robert Denerstein for a look at some of the movies that have done a good job representing the legal profession and a few that deserve to be held in

Sunday, May 27th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Hosted by Robert Denerstein
Vincent van Gogh died in July of 1890 at the age of 37. This prolific artist -- largely ignored during his own time -- has created a mystique unlike almost any other painter before or since. It's not surpris

Sunday, September 30th at 11:30am Hosted by Robert Denerstein
Bruce Granger, a long-time film enthusiast and president of Kind Love, a medical marijuana dispensary, will join Salon curator and host Robert Denerstein for a probing look at the ways in which Hollywood has tended to view marij

MUST END May 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and vampires get along? Where wizards and wookies can be themselves? Welcome to Comic-Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans has grown

North American Premiere
Screens at 9:40pm on Fri, Oct 5th and 3:00pm on Sun, Oct 7
The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of strange locals and brutal violence, many people have gone missing there and even the police won’t go near the estate. Two stude

Starts Fri, Jan 27th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Xavier Durringer’s daring political drama depicts French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s dramatic rise to power and the simultaneous loss of his wife, who leaves him for another man just as he’s being elected to office. Denis Podalydè

Mile High Horror Film Festival Presents: AN EVENING WITH COREY FELDMAN
October 6th, 2012 at 6:30pm
Live Question and Answer session with Corey Feldman
Followed by a special presentation of THE LOST BOYS
The Mile High Horror Film Festival is honored to host actor Corey Feldman on Satu

Making his directorial debut, Ralph Fiennes stars as Shakespeare's deeply flawed Roman military hero in a disturbing update now set amid 21st-century guerilla insurgencies and the incessant blare of cable TV news. With Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave.

MUST END Thursday, September 6th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Shows DAILY at 2:15 4:45 7:20 9:50 PLUS Sat/Sun at 11:45am *NO 7:20 show on Sunday & Wednesday35mm presentation - In director and co-writer David Cronenberg's hauntingly prophetic psychological drama Cosmopolis, he a

Special Presentation Tuesday, October 2nd at 7pm with writer/director Cory McAbee in-person for a post film Q&A and a very special performance as Captain Ahab's Motorcycle Club!Digital presentation - A seven year old girl takes

Screens Through March 29Digital Presentation - Celebrated documentary director Frederick Wiseman spent ten weeks with his camera exploring one of the most mythic places dedicated to women: the Crazy Horse. Over the years this legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain

Special Presentation Sunday, June 10th at 4:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter
In Cooperation with VisionBox DenverDigital presentation - In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years l

MUST END Thursday, April 5th!35mm Presentation - Kate (Halle Berry) is a shark expert whose business has been failing since a shark attack killed a fellow diver under her command. Once dubbed "the shark whisperer," Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back in

MUST END Thursday, October 25th at Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Film-maker and journalist Gotham Chopra spends a year following his father and spiritual icon Deepak Chopra, separating the man from the myth with a raw honesty only a son can have. What starts as decod

In Looking Through A Glass Onion: Deconstructing The White Album, composer/producer Scott Freiman takes Beatles fans young and old into the studio with the Beatles as they create their bestselling album -- The Beatles (commonly referred to as the White Album).
Released in 1968, the

The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the most influential albums of our time. In the history of popular music, there is "Before Sgt. Pepper" and "After Sgt. Pepper". Rolling Stone described it as "the most important rock & roll album ever made, an unsurpassed adventure

Special Matinee Engagement – The Descendants – 1:45pm daily through March 29thLuckily for you fans of the Alexander Payne/Oscar-winning Hawaiian family drama, THE DESCENDANTS, will now be playing a special matinee engagement at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. The Descendants

NOW PLAYING through Wednesday, October 31st at the Denver FilmCenter!Digital presentation - Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century— the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle cla

MUST END Thursday, July 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - The Do-Deca Pentathlon is the hilarious story of two grown brothers who rekindle their homemade uber-competitive childhood sporting event, The Do-Deca Pentathalon, over a weekend family reunion

Special DocNight presentation Thursday, January 12th at 7pm
Followed by a post film discussion with the filmmakers and a reception afterwardsDigital presentation - Still tells the story of Clyfford Still’s remarkable life and his indelible contribution to American art. Though

Special DocNight presentation Thursday, February 16th at 7pm
Followed by a post film discussion with the filmmaker, Steve Feld, and a reception afterwardsDigital presentation - West Side Stories tells the story of the founding, growth and unlikely success of one of this coun

Thursday, May 17th at 7pm
Director Michael Galinsky In-PersonDigital Presentation - BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a professional basketball arena an

Screens Tuesday, September 18th at 7pm, director in-personBringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of nonviolence to China, and then back to the United States. Her life is thro

TONIGHT'S FILM HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
We are looking to reschedule the film at a later date!Digital presentation - Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story examines the life and work of Mark Sandman, deceased frontman of Boston "low rock" band Morphi

Thurs, March 29th at 7pm. Q & A with Director Bob Hercules and Reception to follow!Digital Presentation - Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance tells the story of this groundbreaking cultural treasure, known as the first truly American dance company. Narrated by Tony® and Emmy

Thursday, July 12th at 7pm, directors in personDigital presentation - SCENES OF A CRIME explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile murder trial in New York state.
Police video-recordings allow directors Blue Hadae

1pm Sun Feb 26
Morad, a high school student from an Arab village in northern Israel is kidnapped and brutally beaten by classmates when an innocent text message to a female classmate is misinterpreted. Weeks later Morad appears physically healed yet remains completely disconnected from human

Special Late-Night engagement screens through March 29th at the Denver FilmCenterDigital Presentation - Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon, DRAGONSLAYER is the Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW 2011 and the secon

10:30am Sun Feb 26
How could a blind accordion player see what Mossad agents and Nazi hunters could not? This is the thrilling true story of how a blind Holocaust survivor living in Argentina eventually uncovers the hidden history of his neighbor. As his suspicions grow, he enlists his daugh

One Night Only! Thursday, March 22nd at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Followed by a delicious tasting of fine foods!Digital presentation - For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare

Screens 7pm Tues, May 1 and 2pm Sat, May 5 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - Filmed in two weeks on a budget of 7,000 dollars, El Mariachi was one of the singular pleasures of the 1993-1994 movie season. Kind-spirited guitarist El Mariachi (Carlos M. Gallardo) simply wants

MUST END Thursday, May 17th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - "Juliette Binoche, surely one of the most inquisitive and daring actors working in cinema today, plays Anne, a wife, mother and—most importantly—a journalist currently researching an article about student

Opening Night Film 7pm Tues, March 6th with Reception to Follow
An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, directed by their youngest daughter who was born six months after his death, is a unique installment in the cultural history of this storied family.
Rory Kennedy

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video. The film presents a few days in the lives of three people: Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc ), a television produc

One Night Only! Sunday, December 16th at 7pm at the Sie FilmCenter!Digital Presentation - This holiday season, Everything Is Terrible!, the world famous psychedelic soldiers of found footage, return with another epic masterpiece! Over the last 5 years EIT! has built upon their classi

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Saturday, Feb 4th 7:30pm
Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature — containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but

Colorado Debut
Screens at 7:20pm on Fri, Oct 5th and 5:15pm Sun, Oct 7th
A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.

Special Tugg Screening Thursday, June 28th at 9:30pm
presented by Mile High Cinema! Special taped introduction by Nacho Vigalondo and presentation of his short film 7:35 before the featureDigital presentation - Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely ful

Screens Saturday, July 21st at 4:45pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Set in contemporary Iran, Facing Mirrors is a story of an unlikely and daring friendship that develops despite social norms and religious beliefs. Although Rana is a traditional wife and mother, she is forced

Howie Movshovitz will introduce the film and do a talk back after
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and elect

Thursday, July 26th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Presented by the Clyfford Still Museum16mm presentation - Clyfford Still Museum and Denver Film Society delve into the summer’s programmatic theme of music, movement, and modernism with an evening of short films by avant-gar

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7pm at Denver Film Center/Colfax
Artist Jay Rosenblatt in person!
Jay Rosenblatt of San Francisco is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980. In films both personal in their content and universal in their

MUST END Thursday, June 14th!35mm Presentation - Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful o

MUST END Thursday, October 4th!Digital Presentation - Aspiring rock star Joby Taylor (Paul Dano- THERE WILL BE BLOOD, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) has wanted nothing more than to “make it”, having flirted with fame but never crossed over into true success. In the midst of a low period in h

Monday, March 26 at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter
FREE and Only for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club Members
Tickets available at 5pm on Monday35mm presentation - We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusive

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY Monday, September 24th at 7pm
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will announce that evening's bel

Thursday, August 2nd at 7:30pm. FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members only!
In the romantic comedy Ruby Sparks, Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing—as well as his romantic life. Finally, he make

Saturday, August 11th at 7:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter
The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will make its triumphant return to Denver with a brand-new show at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. Founded in New York City in 2004, the FFF is a one-o

MUST END May 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepove

Special Late-Night Engagement MUST END Thursday, March 22nd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - In a dystopian future, a relentless turf war rages. Two rival gangs feud for control of rural wasteland Frazier Park ('The FP') in the deadly arena of competitive dance-f

NOW PLAYING through Wednesday, October 31st at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chanc

MUST END Thurs, Feb 2 at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, a new feature-length adventure into the world of an international anime sensation. A fugitive alchemist with mysterious abilities leads the Elric brothers to a d

7pm Tues, April 17th & 2pm Sat, April 21st35mm Presentation - The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husb

Cinema Q Film Festival Opening Night Film! Thursday, July 19th at 7pm
Sponsored by Pulse Denver
Opening Night post film reception sponsored by X Bar
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in

3:30pm Sun Feb 26
Fania, her baby daughter, emotionally scarred brother and her uncle are all that is left of her family after the Russian pogroms. Together they join the first wave of European Jews seeking new lives in late 19th Century Palestine. Soon she meets Yechiel, a recent widower wi

7pm Tues, April 24th & 2pm Sat, April 28th35mm Presentation - Two American showgirls in the mood for love board a luxury liner to Paris. Engaged to be married, fair-haired Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) is unknowingly tracked by a private investigator who was hired by her future father-in-

Special presentation! One Night Only! Monday, April 23rd at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenterDigital presentation - The film takes viewers on the musical and spiritual voyage that was Harrison’s life, much of it told in his own words. The result is deeply moving and touches each viewer i

MUST END Thursday, July 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - One of the world's greatest living painters, the German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises

MUST END Thursday, October 25th at Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley,

Screens Sunday, July 22nd at 2pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Followed by a post-film discussion on the state of Lesbian film with actress/co-writer Guinevere Turner, Lisa Kennedy, Film Critic for the Denver Post and Keith Garcia, Programming Manager for the Denver Film Society
Th

MUST END Thursday, June 14th!35mm presentation - Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture, which he sees as overrun with cruelty, stupidity and intolerance. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to liv

MUST END Thursday, July 19th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve returns to Toronto after her critically acclaimed The Father of My Children with an acutely perceptive portrait of a bright young woman in the wake of her first ro

MUST END Thursday, April 26th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - From writers Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg (Superbad) and Canadian cult director Michael Dowse (Fubar I and II) comes this hilarious tale that just may knock Slap Shot off it

9pm Sat March 3“That it happened is fact. How it happened is fiction.” Percy and Felix Adlon referring to the meeting of Mahler and Freud. Percy Adlon (Baghdad Cafe) and his son Felix have crafted a dreamlike biopic of illustrious composer Gustav Mahler during the years of his

MUST END Thursday, December 20th!Brand NEW 35mm presentation! - WWI, and it’s a POW camp for French man-of-the-people flyboy Jean Gabin and aristocratic staff observer Pierre Fresnay after they’re shot down by equally
aristocratic German Erich von Stroheim. But meanwhile there are

Colorado Premiere
Screens Sat, Oct 6th at MIDNIGHT
A film student who is obsessed with the movie GRAVE ENCOUNTERS sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.

MUST END Thursday, August 30th at the DenverFilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Green is the color of hope. Green is the color of Islam. And green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who became the symbolic figure of t

2pm Saturday, December 13th
A free family friendly event! First come, first serve. Tickets will be available at the box office one hour before the event.
Denver Film Society welcomes Colorado author, Linda Petrie Bunch, to read two books about her Bernese Mountain Dog: “A Snow Day For Ha

NOW PLAYING through Wednesday, October 31st at Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai's request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showdown with his feudal lord.
From visionary auteur Takashi Miike (13 ASSASSINS) come

MUST END Thursday, December 6th!Digital presentation - Head Games tells the story of football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to uncover the truth about the consequences of sports related head injuries. It includes relevant science on brain trauma, advice on how to

Must end Thursday, June 21st at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax35 mm presentation - Headhunters is an intense action thriller, as well as a provocative investigation into questions of betrayal, revenge and deadly ambition. The talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) stars as Roger, a charming

Embedded with the U.S. Marine Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist Danfung Dennis takes us to hell and back with Sergeant Nathan Harris, who shuttles heroically between deployment and civilian life, struggling to bridge two worlds.

MUST END Thursday, June 28th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Walking an isolated line between solitude and redemption, Josh Lucas stars in his first leading dramatic role in HIDE AWAY.
Directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), HIDE AWAY follows the story of a s

Opens Friday, November 23rd at the Sie FilmCenterDigital presentation - Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiteers as their guid

MUST END Thursday, May 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Patty Schemel IN-PERSON Saturday, May 5th for a post-film discussion after the 7:15pm showDigital presentation - HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel, the openly gay drummer of Courtney Love's seminal rock band

MUST END Thursday, January 17th!Digital presentation - Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline

Late shows all week/ FREE admission if you see THE INNKEEPERS35mm presentation - From writer-director Ti West comes THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, a satanic thriller set in the 1980s starring Jocelin Donahue (JT Petty’s forthcoming THE BURROWERS), indie ingénue Greta Gerwig (HANNAH TAKES

MUST END Thursday, April 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.Digital presentation - Half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an aging American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighborhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired a

MUST END Thursday, January 24th!
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature35mm presentation - How To Survive A Plague is the untold story of the efforts that turned AIDS into a mostly manageable condition – and the improbable group of young men and women who

Brand New Dubbed 35mm print plays Sept 28 - Oct 4
Showtimes Available Monday, Sept 24th!35mm presentation - Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Ho

MUST END Thursday, April 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Winner of five Academy Awards!35mm (2D) presentation - HUGO is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful orphan boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those arou

US Premiere
Actor Eddie McGee in Attendance!
Screens at 4:40pm on Sat, Oct 6th
Veronica suddenly finds herself in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple: If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish

Screens Saturday, July 21st at 7:30pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
This film contains scenes of explicit sex. - After years of treading water in freewheeling San Francisco, a young gay man prepares to move back to his roots in the Midwest. During his last weekend in town his

Must end Thursday, June 21st at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax35 mm Presentation - Twelve-year-old Koichi lives with his mother and grandparents in a small town by a smoking volcano. His parents' divorce has split the family, with his younger brother Ryu and their feckless rock musicia

MUST END January 19th!35mm presentation - Set against the spectacle of modern world power, the riveting political thriller The Ides of March is an intense tale of sex, ambition, loyalty, betrayal and revenge. The film takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily conteste

3:45pm Sun March 4
It is April 1945 when thousands of Hungarian Jewish prisoners are forced on a death march to Mauthausen. A small group of prisoners become stranded in a secluded Austrian village, finding refuge in a hay barn. Amongst them is an opera singer from Budapest who persuades his

2:30pm Fri March 2
It might seem strange to make an entire film about an old German Jewish cemetery, but rest assured this film is compelling. One hundred-thirty years old, The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery still in use in Europe. Amazingly, its 115,000 graves, gor

MUST END Thurs, Feb 2 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm presentation - Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostic) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic), two people from differe

6:30pm Sat March 3
Architect Erich Mendelsohn wrote twelve hundred letters to his wife Louise, many containing powerfully drawn sketches of his ideas. These dramatic drawings form the foundation of this captivating documentary. This visionary Jewish architect became the busiest architect in

Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30 at 9:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
A special presentation with live comedy DURING the film by Harrison Rains and SPECIAL GUESTS!
Celebrate American COMEDY Independence when this sci-fi classic goes head to head against the guys of Mile High Sci-Fi. Wil

Special Presentation! Wednesday, June 6th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Presented by Colorado indie Game Developers Association(CiGDA)
Followed by a Q&A with local developers and an after party complete with chiptunes, indie game tryouts, giveaways and more!Digital presentation -

MUST END Thurs Feb 16th at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - From director Ti West (The House of the Devil) comes THE INNKEEPERS. Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be o

Plays Wednesday, August 15th at 7pm
In the middle of nowhere, a mill town emptied of its population over the last few years. However, some have decided to stay, more out of choice than necessity, because this is where they were born and grew up. Among them: Francis, a conscientious worker wh

7pm Wed April 18th
Simon Wolberg, the proud Jewish mayor of a small provincial town in northern France, is a lovingly devoted but rigid paterfamilias who finds it difficult to accept the individualities of his family members. Played with memorable authenticity by a wonderfully vital and nuan

7pm Wed May 16th
A woman director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown, the intellectuals, the comics and the forgotten... Filming absolutely everything, with or without their permission, the director will be pulled into the game and let h

Plays Wednesday, October 17th at 7pm
Hard times continue: Louise (Yolande Moreau) and Michel (Bouli Lanners) are the not-altogether-agreeable-looking duo at the center of Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern’s brazen third feature. They meet randomly in this madcap story—which takes its na

Join us on the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm as we present a new French film followed by a pastry reception and discussion led by the Alliance Française.Digital Presentation - Mathieu Amalric (star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and A Christmas Tale) won B

7pm Wed March 21st at the Denver FilmCenter
Two young women who have been friends since childhood are daring in their attempts to gain access to a social class beyond their reach. A surprisingly unpretentious comedy that will speak to the aspirations and angst of many adolescents enthralled

Thursday, August 9th at the Denver FilmCenter
Pre-film events begin at 5pm, Film events begin at 7pm
All proceeds from your ticket benefit the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
For VIP Tickets which includes an intimate reception with Ms. Grier click Buy Tickets

MUST END Thursday, May 24th!35mm Presentation - Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a quiet yet enthralling documentary that chronicles the life of Jiro Ono, the most famous sushi chef in Tokyo. For most of his 85 years, Jiro has been perfecting the art of making sushi. He works from sunrise to

Screens Sunday, July 22nd at 2:15pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Preceded by a Fabulous Drag Brunch starting at Noon and included in your ticket! Put on In Cooperation with National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
“The American Bowie,” “The True Fairy of Rock & Roll,” “Hype of the Year.”

Screens Sunday, July 22nd at 4:30pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
It’s 1997 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What be

FREE! 7:00pm Sept 27th at the Davis Auditorium (DU)
The Great Debates marked television's grand entrance into presidential politics. For the first time voters could see their candidates in competition. 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richa

MUST END Thursday, May 24th!Digital presentation - After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot th

Opens Friday, February 17th at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - Eight months after a botched job in Kiev, Jay (Neil Maskell) is an out-of-work hitman with no job, money, health insurance and a wife constantly on his case. But when his business partner Gal (Michael Smiley) com

MUST END Thursday, August 9th!35mm presentation - In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), KLOWN follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Dan

Opens Friday, November 23rd at the Sie FilmCenter!Digital presentation - Knuckleball! is the story of a few good men, a handful of pitchers in the entire history of baseball forced to resort to the lowest rung on the credibility ladder in their sport: throwing a ball so slow a

Friday, Sept. 14 @4:30pmKochuu is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens an

MUST END Thursday, July 19th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Kumaré is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumaré, however, is not real – he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi who impersonated a spiritu

Screens 7pm Tues, May 15 and 2pm Sat, May 19 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm presentation - Rock 'n Roll biopic on the life of Ritchie Valens, a young Mexican/American whose talents as a rock and roll singer catapulted him from the obscurity of a farm laborer obsessed with music to sta

MUST END Thursday, December 20th!35mm presentation - Beth Raymer (Rebecca Hall) is an intense, excited, beautiful girl with a huge heart who gives up stripping in Florida to realize her dream: to become a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas. When she doesn’t land a job, she lucks into mee

MUST END Thursday, April 5th!Digital Presentation - In the lawless land that is rural China in the 1920s, legendary bandit “Pocky” Zhang (Jiang Wen) and his gang stage a train robbery. They are quite unhappy to discover that instead of silver, the only thing left on the train is the

NOW PLAYING through Wednesday, October 31st Denver FilmCenter!35mm presentation - Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher (writer/director Josh Radnor, Happythankyoumoreplease) worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his he

1:15pm Sun March 4
Alfi Selinger is the alter ego of director Dani Levy, and any suggested references to the Alvy Singer of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall are not accidental. Alfi Selinger, filmmaker, is a man in crisis: his kids can’t stand him, his wife is cheating on him and his bank has

Screens 7pm Tues, May 29 and 2pm Sat, June 2 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - Based on the best-selling novel by Laura Esquival, this internationally popular romantic fable from Mexico centers on a young woman who discovers that her cooking has magical effects. The tale's

MUST END Thurs Feb 16th at the Denver FilmCenterDigital Presentation - The feature film screenwriting debut from Peter Facinelli (TWILIGHT, NURSE JACKIE), LOOSIES stars Facinelli as Bobby, a New York City pickpocket who roams the city disguised as a stockbroker. Bobby tempts fate wit

8:15pm Tues Feb 28
With his bar mitzvah rapidly approaching, Yoni’s already challenging and complex life is further complicated when his autistic brother, Tomer, unexpectedly returns home after living in an institution for the past 12 years. The intellectually gifted Yoni struggles to achiev

Sunday, March 25th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax - FREE!
Join us in Henderson's Lounge starting at 5:30 for some MAD MEN themed cocktail specials! Dress in your dapper 60s best and then we'll all go to our big screen and dive into the 2 Hour Season premiere!

MUST END Thursday, January 5th!
Director Carl Colby IN-PERSON Thursday, January 5th at the 5:00 & 7:20pm shows!35mm presentation - A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM C

MUST END Thursday, June 7th!35mm presentation - Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Director Kevin Macdonald's (One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) documentary Marley is the de

6:15pm Sun March 4
(Four Parts with One Intermission)
Famed Israeli director Etyan Fox (Walk on Water, The Bubble) brings us the
story of Meir, a young man searching for his mother who abandoned him as
a child on his birthday. Meir and his best female friend fall for the hot new
b

MUST END Thurs Jan 26th35mm presentation - In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst, Best Actress Award winner at the Cannes International Film Festival) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård of "True Blood" and Straw Dogs) are celebrating their marriage

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY
Monday, November 26 at 7pm at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we wil

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY Monday, April 30th at 7pm
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will announce that evening's belove

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY Monday, May 28th at 7pm
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will announce that evening's beloved

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY Monday, June 25th at 7pm
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will announce that evening's beloved

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY Monday, August 27th at 7pm
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will announce that evening's belove

FREE for DFS and Reel Social Club Members ONLY
Monday, October 29 at 7pm at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
We've culled a list of our member's favorite filmmakers to begin an ongoing monthly program, free and exclusively for Denver Film Society and Reel Social Club members. Every month we will

Screens 7pm Tues, May 22 and 2pm Sat, May 26 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - The mean streets of Echo Park are the setting for this disturbing look at how life in a gang only leads to self-destruction. Two childhood friends get caught up in their neighborhood gang scene

MUST END Thursday, December 6th!Digital presentation - As Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her. Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek (Omar

Special Event Sunday, May 20th at 4:30pm
Presented by Swallow Hill MusicDigital presentation - Think of a ukulele and you probably imagine grass skirts, slide guitar and kitchy lyrics, but far from being just a novelty instrument, the uke has a rich history and has profoundly affect

Friday, January 27th at 7pm and Saturday, January 28th at 9:30pm ALMOST SOLD OUT!
Third show JUST ADDED! Friday, January 27th at 10pm!
Bad Movies. Good Comedy.
www.milehighscifi.com
MHSF's cool kick-ass sponsors:
Dale's Pale Ale, Denver Film Society and

Friday & Saturday, September 28 & 29 at 9:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
A special presentation with live comedy DURING the film by Harrison Rains and SPECIAL GUESTS!
2! 4! 6! 8! COME TO THE SHOW AND DON'T BE LATE!! (it is a cheerleader joke, because Buffy is a cheerleader, ge

Screens Thursday, December 20th at 7:30pm at the SIE FilmCenter! FREE Tickets available ONE HOUR before showtime! Hosted by Harrison Rains & Matt Vogl with the special comic hijinxs of Nathan Lund, Chris Charpentier and Sam Tallent!
It’s the end of the world as we know it and Mile High Sci-F

Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27 at 9:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
A special presentation with live comedy DURING the film by Harrison Rains and SPECIAL GUESTS!
www.milehighscifi.com
MHSF's cool kick-ass sponsors:
The Onion, Dale's Pale

Friday, August 31st and Saturday, September 1st at 9:30pm
Not the predator that drives the beat-up van and hangs out near the school—we’re talking about the 1990’s flick starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey!
www.milehighscifi.com
MHSF's cool kick

Friday, February 24th at 7:30pm
Harrison Rains will be joined by comedy wunderkind Chris Charpentier!!
It's 80's fun with Romancing the Stone! Remember when Kathleen Turner was still a woman and Danny DeVito was still occasionally sober? When you knew Michael Douglas as that guy from China

Friday, May 25th and Saturday, May 26th at 9:30pm
Bad Movies. Good Comedy.
The movie is really REALLY strange and the show is really REALLY funny. And it is Memorial Day so you can wear white pants.
www.milehighscifi.com
MHSF's cool kick-ass sponsors

Friday, April 6th and Saturday, April 7th at 9:30pm
Take you out to the ball game!!!
The Rockies open at home on April 9th, and since you don't have tickets we're going to give you the next best thing: a special Opening Day edition of Mile High Sci-Fi!
To celebrate the return of Ame

Panel discussion to follow
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. It’s clear the mainstream media objectifies women, but what most people don’t realize is the magnitude of that p

Colorado Debut
Director Rob Grant in Attendance!
Screens at 7:30pm Sat, Oct 6th and 2:30pm Sun, Oct 7th
Cal and Teddy, two former best friends, try to rekindle their friendship by hatching a plan to kidnap their boss's daughter from where they work, 'Hal's Hardware'. But both their plans

MUST END January 19th35mm Presentation - Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt)—once a would-be baseball superstar who turned his fiercely competitive nature to management. Heading into the 2002 season, Billy faces a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland

MUST END Thursday, July 19th at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax
In Montreal, an elementary school teacher dies abruptly. Having learned of the incident in the newspaper, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school to offer his services as a substitute teacher. Qu

3pm on Sat, Oct 6th
The 2012 Mile High Horror Film Festival MONSTER PANEL will host horror icons Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley! We will honor both stars with awards recognizing their outstanding contributions to the horror genre.
This panel discussion will cover topics ranging from thei

7pm Wednesday, July 18th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
with post-film discussion led by Ka Chun Yu, PhD, curator of space sciences
In 2009 NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples from Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons,

Screens Saturday, July 21st at 715pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Sponsored by One Colorado
Set in a predominately Mexican, immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mosquita y Mari tells the story of two 15 year old Chicanas growing u

5:30pm Mon Feb 27
Two impoverished brothers in 1960s Poland are drawn into a neo-Nazi gang. When they are caught vandalizing a Jewish neighborhood, their mother is distraught. Only then does she reveal her hidden past. Determined to build a new and better life for her boys, she decides they

8pm Wed Feb 29
Betrayal, role-reversal, romance and intrigue combine in this suspenseful caper about two friends who wind up playing cat-and-mouse with each other in Nazi-occupied Europe. Viktor Kaufman, the son of a wealthy art dealer, and Rudi Smekal, son of their housekeeper, have been be

7pm Tuesday, July 24th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Q&A facilitated by Michal Peleg-Uziyahu, Israel shlichah (emissary) to the Jewish community of Colorado
Marco Carmel’s My Lovely Sister is a charming and beautifully acted film about the love and hate between two sisters, based

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print plays August 17 - 2335mm presentation - One of the most endearing and internationally renowned films of all time, a film that Roger Ebert called “one of the five best movies” ever made for children, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO is a deceptively simple tale of two

Dubbed in English for 3 Days Only! Screens August 17, 18 & 19
Special Kids Red Carpet Premiere Saturday, August 18th at 10am! $5 Admission for kids under 12 plus a free Kids Combo!35mm presentation - One of the most endearing and internationally renowned films of all time, a film t

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print plays Sept 21 - 2735mm presentation - In a break from the frequently mythical storytelling of Studio Ghibli, director Isao Takahata wryly tweaks the everyday activities of family life with his depiction of the irresponsible, slovenly, and lazy Yamada fa

NOW PLAYING at the Denver FilmCenter
Friday, February 10th, 7:15pm Show Hosted by the film's Director JENNIFER FOX in conversation with RABBI STEPHEN BOOTH-NADAV of Wisdom House Denver
Saturday, February 11th, 7:15pm Show Co-hosted by

In 2002, six Jewish and Palestinian teenage girls flew to New Jersey to attend a peace camp. Removed from daily tensions at home, they faced their “enemies,” formed friendships and initiated the very sort of dialogue that this thoughtful documentary sets out to generate.

OPENING NIGHT FILM
Thursday, June 21, 7:00pm
Followed by opening night party in Henderson’s Lounge and a special performance by Myrna La Chanteuse!CLICK HERE for a full J'adore Festival Pass!
In her ra

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print plays Aug 31 - Sept 6
Shows FRIDAY - TUESDAY at 4:30 7:00 THEN Wednesday & Thursday at 4:30 9:3035mm presentation - The debut film from Hayao Miyazaki, NAUSICAA is considered by many to be his masterwork — and there are few films, animated or otherwise

Colorado Debut
Screens at 5:00p on Fri, Oct 5th and 12:30pm on Sat, Oct 6th
In 1989 Greg Nicotero quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one

MUST END Thursday, November 22nd!35mm presentation - Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on

MUST END Thursday, December 27th at the Sie FilmCenter!Digital presentation - Pim lives with his ex-beauty queen, single mother in a small town on the Belgian coast. Introverted, he spends his childhood drawing and dreaming up fantasy lives while keeping his emerging desires a secret

MUST END Thursday, March 22nd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami, NORWEGIAN WOOD is a story of loss and heartbreak in a time of global instability. The setting is Tokyo, the late 1960s...Students around the world are uniting to ov

Screens at 10:10pm Sat, Oct 6th
Widely considered to be the first vampire movie, NOSFERATU is the earliest surviving screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel. Originally released in 1922, NOSFERATU is an unparalleled psychic thriller with the iconic portrayal of Count Orlock by Ger

MUST END Thursday, Jan 19th35mm presentation - One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established th

MUST END Thursday, March 22nd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - In this engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an is

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print plays Sept 28 - Oct 4
Showtimes Available Monday, Sept 24th!35mm presentation - Realizing that she is at a crossroads in her life, bored twenty-something Taeko heads for the countryside. The trip dredges up forgotten childhood memories which unfold in

Friday, June 22, 1:30pm
Saturday, June 23, 9:00pm
CLICK HERE for a full J'adore Festival Pass!
Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi—a regular guy who happens to be an illegal North African immigrant—sets ou

Oscar Night® America is a gala fundraiser benefiting the year-round programs of the nonprofit Denver Film Society. The event will raise both funds and awareness of the Film Society’s activities, programs, and educational events. Oscar Night® America is one of 49 official parties held across the coun

MUST END Thursday, August 9th!35mm presentation - Thirty-four-year-old Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a fortunate, but deeply troubled man battling drug addiction. As part of his rehabilitation program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview, but instead uses the opp

MUST END Thurs, Jan 12th at the Denver FilmCenter35mm presentation - Writer/director Takeshi Kitano (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, Fireworks, Brother, Sonatine) returns with his latest gangland drama, Outrage. In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of

MUST END Thursday, June 14th!35mm Presentation - Margaret Atwood’s visionary work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on “debt” in its various forms—societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of cou

MUST END Thursday, July 12th at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax
Divorce makes you do crazy things. For Manhattan lawyer Diane (Catherine Keener), “crazy” means driving her teenaged son Jake (Nat Wolff) and adult daughter Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) to Woodstock to visit their grandmother Grace (Jane

MUST END March 15th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - A hit at Sundance '11 and winner of the Edinburgh Film Festival's prize for Best New British Feature, the amazing genre creation directed by David Mackenzie stars Eva Green & Ewan McGregor as witnesses to the end

In conjunction with the Clyfford Still Museum’s Drawing into Painting/Painting into Drawing exhibition, the Denver Film Society and Clyfford Still Museum presents Film/Still: PERSEPOLIS. As with the evolution of sketch drawing on paper to the painted canvas, the genesis of the graphic novel to anima

Special Presentation Tuesday, August 28th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenterDigital presentation - The ubiquitous pink ribbons of breast cancer philanthropy - and the hand-in-hand marketing of brands and products associated with that philanthropy — permeates our culture, providing assur

Must end Thursday, June 21st at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - The daily grind for the police officers of the Child Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive paren

Brand New Dubbed 35mm print plays Sept 28 - Oct 4
Showtimes Available Monday, Sept 24th!35mm presentation - Perfect for audiences of all ages, PONYO centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and

Brand New 35mm print plays Sept 21 - 27
*Please note that we had to switch to a Dubbed 35mm print due to forces beyond our control!35mm presentation - This unsung treasure from Hayao Miyazaki nestles a tale of morality and identity inside a soaring airborne adventure — a tribute to

6pm Thurs, March 8th
Director Sara Nesson In-Person
POSTER GIRL is the story of Robynn Murray, an all-American high-school cheerleader turned “poster girl” for women in combat, distinguished by Army Magazine’s cover shot. Now home from Iraq, her tough-as-nails exterior begins to crack, leav

Denver Premiere! Sunday, November 18th at 7pm (All Ages) and 9pm (18+)
All seats $7. Drink specials all night!Digital presentation - The much anticipated new video from Girl and Chocolate skateboards will be premiering in Denver on November 18th at the Denver Film Center. Sponsored

Dubbed version plays 3 Days Only Sept 7, 8, 9
DUBBED print shows FRI - SUN at 2PM, SAT/SUN at 11:00amDigital presentation - PRINCESS MONONOKE is a landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty. An epic story of conflict between humans, gods, and nature, the film h

Friday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30pm
When it was built in the 1950s, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis was a model example of affordable urban housing, providing an alternative to the slums and a home for low-income families in exodus from rural blight. But by 1972, the area had declined and

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7pm at Denver Film Center/Colfax
Artist Phil Solomon in person!
Phil Solomon is an professor of film studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has exhibited in every major venue for experimental cinema in the United States and Europe, including solo ex

Screens Saturday, July 21st at 2:15pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
On May 6th, 2009 Maine became the first state in this country to legislatively grant same-sex couples the right to marry. Seven months later, on November 3rd, 2009 Maine, thru a referendum election, reversed, becomin

11pm Sat Feb 25
Take the fundamental ingredients of the American slasher flick, a touch of camp and a sly cinematic wink, then stir the whole thing up in an Israeli national park and what do you get? Israel’s first bona fide horror film!

Performing Thursday, August 9 don't miss music by ManCub and Mike Marchant PLUS Tattered Cover Book Store will present some special spoken word. Hosted by Harrison Rains. Free admission.
The Denver Film Society is sponsoring three neighborhood block parties on June 14, July 12 and August 9

Plays Tuesday Feb 7 at 7pm, Wednesday Feb 8 at 2pm and Saturday Feb 11 at 2pmBrand New 35mm Print! - This religious fable from director Robert Bresson traces the lives of a farm girl, Marie, and her beloved pet donkey, Balthazar. The two eventually become separated, but their experie

Screens Tuesday Feb 21 at 7pm, Wednesday Feb 22 at 2pm and Saturday Feb 25 at 2pmBrand New 35mm presentation - At a lavish European hotel, a handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago. When she claims not to remember him, he

Screens Tuesday March 27th at 7pm, Wednesday March 28th at 2pm and Saturday March 31st at 2pm as part of our Rare Imports program35mm Presentation - Constructed as a flashback from news reports of a young man’s suspicious suicide, Robert Bresson’s splenetic 1977 drama puts the post-1

Plays Tuesday, March 13 at 7pm, Wednesday March 14 at 2pm and Saturday March 17 at 2pm as part of our Rare Imports program35mm Presentation - In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treach

MUST END Thursday, September 13th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax!
Shows DAILY (Sept 7 - 13) at 5:00 9:40 *NO 5:00 on FRIDAY Digital presentation - Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. Everything appears to be running smoothl

Due to unforeseen circumstances the scheduled screening of V/H/S has been cancelled and we will be screening this highly anticipated title instead!
Special Screening presented by Mile High Horror Film Festival
Friday, July 13th at 7:30pm at

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
Michelangelo Antonioni’s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age - about a disaffected

Roll out of bed and straight into the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax for bottomless mimosas and brunch followed by a private screening of the critically acclaimed documentary, Bill Cunningham New York.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
10:30 am, brunch + mimosas + radio 1190 + photobooth + fashion s

MUST END Thursday, May 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - Ryan Gosling produces and narrates this feature documentary directed by Phillip Montgomery. Beyond the labels of Generation X and Generation Y, ReGeneration takes an uncompromising look at the is

8:30pm Sat Feb 25
I tend to believe in coincidence, that the course of our lives is led by accidental incidents and the decisions we make as a result of these incidents.
— Director Anna Justice
Remembrance is the true story of two lovers who meet in a concentration camp in 1944. T

Colorado Debut
Screens at 12:40pm on Sun, Oct 7th
Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and put his life back on track. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend’s life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the con

10:30am Sun March 4
Fidelman’s life is turned upside down when his longtime partner in their furniture restoration business suddenly passes away. With the business on the edge of bankruptcy, his son Noah, who has no appreciation for antiques, is eager to close the business, demolish the buil

MUST END Thursday, September 6th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Shows DAILY at 5:00 9:40Digital presentation - A horror comedy in the vein of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and ZOMBIELAND, the film tells the story of a soldier (David Anders, from TV's 24 and Vampire Diaries) who is killed in Ir

MUST END Thursday, December 20th!Digital presentation - In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education rewrites the teaching and textbook standards for its

Screens Sunday, November 18th at 2pm at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
This is a FREE event. Click HERE to RSVP for your ticket.
Rafea, who lives in a small Jordanian village, is 30 years old with four children and a husband eager to take a third wi

7pm September 19th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
David Amram and Josh White, Jr., In Person
In May of 1941, an unemployed Woody Guthrie and his wife, Mary, packed their three children into a battered Pontiac and left southern California for Portland, Oregon. All he had waiting for him i

7pm Tuesday, July 31st at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Q&A facilitated by Adam Rovner, Professor of Jewish Culture and Hebrew Literature, DU
When a young, idealistic Israeli military investigator confronts an elite soldier with accusations of unnecessary violence against a Palestinian man

MUST END Thursday, August 2nd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - For generations, the Zhao family has wielded power, even extending over the king. In a well-planned coup, their mortal enemy TU'AN GU (Wang Xue Qi) slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out t

MUST END Thursday, October 11th at the DenverFilmCenter35mm presentation - In the scrappy romantic comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle Magazine employees (Aubrey Plaza, Jake Johnson and Karan Soni) to look for the story behind

MUST END Thursday, May 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm presentation - In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy—this time with a dash of the bittersweet. In The Salt

MUST END Thursday, January 17th35mm presentation - "Samsara" is a Sanskrit word that means "the ever turning wheel of life" and it is the point of departure for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson (Baraka, Chronos) as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that ru

1pm Sat, March 10th
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz. Live piano accompaniment by Hank Troy
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hest

7pm Tuesday, July 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxSharqiya is a film that highlights the complexities of Bedouin communities living in Israel. Kamel lives with his brother and sister-in law at the edge of the Negev desert on land that has been in their Bedouin family since the Ot

Screens at 9:20pm on Fri, Oct 5th and 12:00pm on Sat, Oct 6th
The Mile High Horror Film Festival presents some of the very best independent short horror films from around the world.
PERISHED (16 min.)
LOVE BUG (13 min.)
BOBBY YEAH (23 min.)
TAMMY’S COOKIES (9 Min.)
BABY-SITTING (20

Screens at 4:30pm on Fri, Oct 5th and 5:00pm on Sun, Oct 7th
The Mile High Horror Film Festival presents some of the very best independent short horror films from around the world.
46 MILES (8 min.)
ZOMBIE CHIC (6 min.)
FOXES (16 min.)
DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED (3 min.)
BRAINEATER (5

Screens at 4:25pm on Sat, Oct 6th
The Mile High Horror Film Festival presents some of the very best independent short horror films from around the world.
OCHO (13 min.)
LAZAROV (5 min.)
CHEAP EXTERMINATION (9 min.)
THE HOUSE THAT WEPT BLOOD (11 min.)
DIVINATION (11 min.)
ANNIVERS

Screens at 7:00pm on Fri, Oct 5th and 9:40pm on Sat, Oct 6th
The Mile High Horror Film Festival presents some of the very best independent short horror films from around the world.
TUMULT (13 min.)
THE CAPTURED BIRD (10 min.)
PSYCHO THERAPY (14 min.)
DEADBOX (9 min.)
BAD MOON RISIN

Screens at 12:15pm on Sun, Oct 6th
The Mile High Horror Film Festival presents some of the very best independent short horror films from around the world.
THE TABLE (5 min.)
88:88 (14 min.)
ODODURU (6 min.)
SUMMER OF THE ZOMBIES (11 min.)
OTHER (15 min.)
ESCAPE FROM HELLVIEW (7 mi

Shun Li bartends in a sleepy fishing village to pay off a debt that will enable her son to join her in Italy. When she meets Bepi, a retired Slavic fisherman who is also a poet, their unlikely friendship is met with disapproval by locals.

MUST END Thursday, August 2nd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands

MUST END Thurs, Feb 9th at the Denver FilmCenterDigital Presentation - Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, SING YOUR SONG, surveys the life and times of singer/act

MUST END Thurs Jan 26thDigital presentation - 16-year-old Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of Junior Tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, she has no time for lazy newcomer Farrell Gambles. But when fate and a twisted ankle intervene, she teaches F

MUST END Thursday May 31st!Digital presentation - Sarah Sparks is a freelance “technologist” who repairs everything from new computers to old-fashioned radios and considers it part of her job to interview strangers in public places about the role technology plays in their lives. When

MUST END Thursday, March 22nd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - Based on the horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, where police found dismembered bodies rotting in barrels, THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS, which marks Justin Kurzel's directorial debut is

NOW PLAYING through Thursday, November 29th!Digital presentation - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN tells the intimate stories of four teenaged girls. They live in different parts of the US, in different kinds of families and are united by one thing: all four were adopted from China because all fou

Special Screening! Thursday, May 31st at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Presented by the Cherry Creek Theatre in advance of their new show A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING which covers the Rodgers & Hammerstein songbook!Digital presentation - The dazzling Rodgers and Hammerstein music

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print, MUST END Thursday, September 20th35mm presentation - Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning masterpiece SPIRITED AWAY was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and a film that helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audie

MUST END Thursday, October 11th at the DenverFilmCenterDigital Presentation - From the presenters of the popular Academy Award Nominated Shorts program comes Stars in Shorts, a delightful new program featuring the world’s biggest actors—in their smallest roles yet! Judi Denc

Colorado Debut
Screens at MIDNIGHT on Fri, Oct 5th
It was meant to be the perfect 10th birthday party for young Tom (Tommy Knight), a day filled with friends and family and fun. Mum even hired a clown for the occasion, a clown named Stitches (Ross Noble). Stitches may not have been the be

Tickets are still available at the Lakeside box office for $35
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Leland Rucker will be in person for the intro and Q&A following the film.
Sweet Lunacy looks back at the music scene in Boulder from roughly 1960-1990, and stars the Astronauts, Flash Cadillac, Zephyr, Dusty Drapes and the Dusters, Chris Daniels, Rosewood Canyon, Magic Music, Spoons, Steve

Plays Sunday, August 12th at 2pm Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
Presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
FREE Tickets available ONE hour before screening
“They” say that Chaplin stole the beginning of Modern Times from this film by René Claire. Claire’s response

Sunday, February 5th at 2pm Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
FREE Tickets available One Hour before showtime
Presented by Tattered Cover Book Store and Colorado Public RadioDigital presentation - It took Louis Malle over forty years to make this autobiographical film about one inadverten

Plays Sunday, December 2nd at 2pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
Presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
FREE Tickets available ONE hour before screening
Renoir is as good as it gets. He nudges his characters into action, and he watches. His films have neither he

Sunday, January 8th at 2pm Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
FREE Tickets available One Hour before showtime
Presented by Tattered Cover Book Store and Colorado Public RadioDigital presentation - As Japan finally begins to rise from the devastation of World War II, two boys grow petulant

Screens Sunday, July 1st at 2pm Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
FREE Tickets available One Hour before showtime
Presented by Tattered Cover Book Store and Colorado Public RadioHD Digital presentation - The beginning of the sound period in the movies was “officially” 1929, but Chaplin

Screens Sunday, May 6th at 2pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Colorado Public Radio and Tattered Cover Book Store
FREE Tickets available ONE HOUR before showtimeHD Digital presentation - Australian filmmaker Peter Weir has often been interested in encounters with thing

Screens Sunday, June 3rd at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter
FREE Tickets available ONE HOUR before showtime
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Colorado Public Radio and Tattered Cover Book StoreHD Digital presentation - This is the film that made the West notice that Japan ha

Plays Sunday, October 14th at 2pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
Presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
One of the great early examples of cinema verité, or what the Maysles brothers and others called “direct cinema.” What they do is observe, with as little effect on

Plays Sunday, September 2nd at 2pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
Presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
FREE Tickets available ONE hour before screening!
Alec Guinness plays the loony, grubby painter Gully Jimson in this adaptation of the wacky novel by Joyce Cary. A

A young homeless woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) is found dead in a vineyard, and the rest of the film shows what people who encountered her in the last two weeks of her life thought of the interesting, sometimes antagonistic, and always vulnerable Mona. Written and directed by Agnes Varda, the woman who

Have you dreamed of bringing a story to life?
This summer you can!
Join the Denver Film Society, acclaimed writer Terry Dodd and Vision Box Actors Studio for a unique screenwriting workshop.
You will write a short film script and watch your words come to life as Vision Box Actor's Worksho

Join the Denver Film Society, the Japanese American Resource Center, and VSA Colorado / Access Gallery Saturday, July 7th at 5pm for an exclusive intimate reception for THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI with Artist Jimmy Mirikitani, film director Linda Hattendorf, and producer Masa Yoshikawa in person at the A

MUST END Thursday, December 6th!Digital presentation - On the cusp of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-

7pm Wednesday, July 25 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
with post-show discussion led by Ian Miller, PhD, curator of paleontology
The Earth's inner core has stopped spinning, and scientist Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) must discover why -- before the world literally falls apart -- by burrowin

7pm Tuesday, July 17th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - The Flat is the fascinating and award-winning documentary on the discoveries filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger makes about his maternal grandparents while cleaning out their Tel Aviv apartment.
“The flat on the

7pm Wednesday, August 1 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax with post-film discussion led by Jeff Stephenson, zoology collections manager
While testing his teleportation device, scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) accidentally merges his cells with those of a housefly. As his reporter girlf

6pm Friday, March 9th
Producer Nancy Kissock In-Person
They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts, they kow-towed to the club owners and smiled at the customers…and they did it all, just to play the music they loved.
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, unt

Colorado Premiere!
Saturday, Sept. 8 @ 2pm
In The Gruen Effect, an architect’s life, work, and critical humor become a means to make sense of the cities we live in today. The Viennese architect Victor Gruen is considered the father of the shopping mall. His ideas about urban planning

MUST END March 1 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, Best Picture nominee The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Academy Award nominee Viola Davis (Doubt) as Aibileen and Academy Award nom

5:30pm Wed Feb 29
Amidst the constant flow of headlines detailing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, arises a story of unlikely cooperation. The residents of Kibbutz Shoval enjoy all the conveniences of the modern world, while the nearby Palestinian villagers of Susia live in caves

Premieres at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax 4:30 pm May 28th!
Danny Diaz and a small group of filmmakers from Denver set out over three years ago to document the stories of the PT Boats from WWII, and also to gather the personal experiences of the men themselves. Grass roots fund raising en

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
The fading fortunes of the titular siblings take center stage in Kon Ichikawa’s 1983 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s acclaimed novel. It’s 1938, and the Makiokas seek to marry off Yukiko while struggling with familial conflict and relinquishing their hold on the past

MUST END Thursday, May 17th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax as part of our monthly Cinema Q programDigital Presentation - Kathleen Turner stars in this timely family comedy as a meddling matriarch determined to rein her husband and two grown children into her image of what the “perfe

2pm Saturday, December 13th.
Join us for some holiday cheer as we present a FREE screening of the seminal holiday classic The Polar Express. Following the screening join us in the FilmCenter lobby for a visit from Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus and some holiday treats!
Sponsors:
Sus

7pm Tuesday, July 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Q&A facilitated by Sarah Pessin, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, DUThe Queen Has No Crown is a documentary film of Tomer Heymann’s that navigates the intimate lives of five brothers and their mother, as they experien

MUST END May 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax35mm Presentation - One ruthless crime lord. Twenty elite cops. Thirty floors of chaos. Showcasing the jaw-dropping Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat, the crime thriller The Raid: Redemption has been described as "mind-boggl

Escape with Reel Social Club for the 2nd annual trip to the Vail Film Festival. The fine folks at the VFF have hooked up a discounted package, exclusively for Reel Social Club and Denver Film Society members!
The “Screening” Pass (RSC/DFS Members, $100/ Non-Members, $150):
• Admission t

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
A haunting score by Georges Delerue enhances the mood in The Soft Skin, François Truffaut's dark and suspenseful follow-up to Jules and Jim. While on a business trip, married literary critic Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) meets a beautiful airline hostess

Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce - usually on film - his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom is a comedy about a boy (Charlie Hunnam

35mm presentation - As sequels go BTTF PART II is THE GODFATHER PART II of 80s science fiction comedies, plus it hashoverboards! The second part of the trilogy begins as Doc, Marty and Jennifer take the time-traveling DeLorean into the year 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFl

HD Digital presentation - One of the most controversial films in history, now available for the first time ever in America! In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation’s youth, the Japanese government passes T

Plays Friday & Saturday, May 18 & 19 at 10pm in The Watching Hour!35mm presentation - Founded in 1910 just outside of the city limits of Gilbert located in Lanville County, Texas, the Chicken Ranch has for generations been known as the best whorehouse in Texas for its wholesome fun,

35mm Archival presentation - The A.V. Club’s New Cult Canon series comes back with a jingle this holiday season with a series of holiday film screenings around the country—all brought to life by our friends at Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
A.V. Club film editor Scott Tobias has been covering The New

35mm presentation - In this high-flying crime caper featuring plenty of daring stunts, Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman makes her film debut as Judy, a teen who helps two of her best pals, bike-riding hotshots P.J. (Angelo D'Angelo ) and Goose (James Lugton), take on a menacing gang of grow

35mm presentation - Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies

35mm presentation - One of John Waters' favorite films that he didn't direct is this hard to find over-the-top camp fest that was written by Tennessee Williams and stars Elizabeth Taylor at her most glamorous. The wealthy, self-absorbed eccentric Sissy Goforth (Taylor) has taken up residence

Part of our salute to John Waters in advance of his appearance at RMCAD35mm presentation - Helmed by director John Waters -- the king of kitsch -- this campy comedy set in 1950s Baltimore stars Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, a leather-clad street tough who leads a gang dubbe

Plays in The Watching Hour Friday & Saturday, Oct 19th & 20th at 10pm35mm presentation - A group of actresses up for a highly-coveted movie role go to the director of the film’s mansion (which is in the middle of nowhere) to audition for the part. It isn’t all fun and games though, a

Friday, April 12th & Saturday, April 13th at 10pm as part of The Watching HourDigital presentation - Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky dark comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with la

This is a 21+ event!
Sunday, June 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
10pm Screening - 9:30pm Drink Specials
DANCE PARTY - Before, After and During the Screening!
Official Kick Off Party for Westword Music Showcase presented by The Watching HourGirl Walk // All Day is a feature-

Plays as part of the Watching Hour on Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 10pm
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2. Alex is as obsessed with

Friday & Saturday, August 10 & 11 at 10pm at The Watching HourDigital presentation - In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space for

Screens Saturday, July 21st at 9:30pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet on a summer day in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Bubbly and naïve, Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open tomboy Jack’s tough skinned heart.

MUST END Thursday, May 24th!35mm presentation - Juan is 40 years old, most of which he spent in Cuba doing absolutely nothing. It’s his way of life, and he’s prepared to defend it at any cost, along with his pal Lázaro, as lazy as Juan but twice as dumb. Juan’s only emotional tie is

Archival 35mm presentation on Friday for the purists and a special HD Digital presentation on Saturday with extra scenes not featured in the original print! - Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all unicorns from

Screens in The Watching Hour Friday & Saturday, November 23 & 24 at 10pmHD Digital Presentation - Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her o

35mm presentation - After growing up abroad, brainy teen Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) moves to Chicago and haphazardly joins her new high school's most powerful clique. But there's hell to pay when the ex-boyfriend of the clique's menacing leader (Rachel McAdams) shows interest in being Cady's

35mm presentation - The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts synth rock band Dragon Sound has had enough, and embarks on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crus

35mm presentation - Colorful and action-packed, this jubilant film endearingly spoofs James Bond-style spy adventures from the 1960s. The setting is Egypt, 1955. Cairo is a veritable nest of spies, with everyone wary of everyone and plotting against everyone: the English, French, Soviets—even

35mm presentation - He's France's top agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (the fabulous Jean Dujardin), better known as OSS 117, agent double-one-seven (or "one seventeen" as he would have it). Suave yet clueless, a cross between James Bond and Austin Powers, OSS 117 is back for another missio

35mm presentation - Penetrating the tight-knit community of minority drag queens living in New York City, Jennie Livingston's acclaimed documentary offers an early glimpse at the art of "voguing," the underground dance style later popularized by Madonna in her hit song. The film also explores

Special Aerobics party before each showing! Pull out those legwarmers, sweatbands because it's going to get leo-tarded! FREE Basil Docs pizza! Hip thrusting contest! Feel the burn!!35mm presentation - Perfect is pure 1980s fluff, complete with a swingin' John Travolta (mousse-filled

35mm presentation - In this off-beat horror outing, a band of film students decide to scare up some cash by holding a film festival celebrating horror films from the '50s. Its all great fun until they discover that the projectionist is a homicidal maniac. Gory violence ensues as audience memb

35mm presentation - Not since HAUSU has a restored underground classic taken the world of cinephiles by storm like POSSESSION. This has long been a favorite of ours, even though it has only been available on video bootlegs and badly cut 35mm prints. Now that a new print is making the rounds,

35mm presentation - A sequel to one of the most popular horror films of all time, this psychological thriller received a pleasantly surprised, positive critical reception. Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, who has just been released from an insane asylum after 22 years, having been jud

HD Digital presentation - REDLINE is about the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the

35mm presentation - Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he

Preceded by our own High School Reunion party at 9pm. Come dressed as you were in High School and enjoy some rocking tunes, adult punch and reinvent yourself for a new generation!!35mm presentation - Two not-too-bright party girls (Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) reinvent themselves fo

35mm presentation - The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents' death, Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith) has had to act as a parent to her little brother S

Bring in an artifact from a failed relationship with someone who did you wrong and we'll destroy them together! Items can include mixtapes, letters, texts, dumb gifts. We will NOT be burning anything, just so you know...35mm presentation - When her two-timing husband deserts her for

35mm presentation - Writer/ Director Richard Kelly’s long awaited follow-up to 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko starts with a literal bang: on July 4, 2005 a nuclear explosion in Texas ignites World War III. Jump to the future of 2008: while it occupies the entire Middle East and North Korea

Screens Friday, July 20th at 10pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival and presented by The Watching Hour - Christeene Vale, DJ JJ Booya and director PJ Raval IN-PERSON!
Post performance dance party presented by Damn Gurl* in our lobby included in your ticket!
Get ready Denver for the nigh

Plays Friday & Saturday, July 12th & 13th at 10pm in The Watching Hour!Archival 35mm presentation - Romance and violence collide in this rock 'n' roll fantasy set against a background of highly stylized urban decay. A sexy female singer (Diane Lane) is kidnapped by a gang of vicious

35mm presentation - The sun is dying and Earth's days are numbered in this sci-fi thriller helmed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). With permanent darkness looming, scientists devise a plan to reignite the sun before the lights go out forever. To do so, a crew of astronauts i

35mm presentation - Louise (Robin Lively) was just another misfit teenager who pined for a handsome boy and a popular life—until a chance meeting with Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein, Poltergeist) reveals she is a direct descendant of Salem witches! Now, if she can figure out how to use her p

35mm presentation - The Zoo is the hottest disco in town, and on the night of the big dance contest, a wild assortment of disparate characters find themselves out on the floor together. DJ Bobby Speed (Ray Vitte) is convinced that broadcasting the show live on the radio waves and having the C

35mm presentationA deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings, ripped throats, and stabbings with a fireplace poker. The killer needs fresh body parts to rejuvenate his cells. He also has maggots for bloo

Screens Friday & Saturday, December 21st & 22nd as part of The Watching Hour!HD Digital presentation! - Unleashed from the vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse, a meticulous selection of the best, strangest and most amazing coming attraction trailers in the world! Most have never been avai

Special encore Presentation in The Watching Hour Saturday, December 29th at 10pm!Digital presentation - In TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET, R. Kelly’s classic hip hopera, Kels takes on the role of Sylvester, who has a simple one-night stand with a preacher’s wife and then ends up in a web of p

Wear your Girl Scout or Brownie badge sash and get a FREE small popcorn!35mm presentation - Shelly Long stars as a spoiled Beverly Hills housewife who decides -- in an effort to disprove her husband's characterization that she's a selfish trophy wife -- to become the leader of her da

Screens Friday & Saturday, December 14th & 15th as part of The Watching Hour!
Hosted by The Action Pack's Henri Mazza! Free Santa Hats, Jingle Bells and Good Tidings for all!Digital presentation - It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the Action Pack’s XMAS POPS Sing-Along i

Sneak peak at Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nicole Opper's new work-in-progress They Are All My Brothers. Meet Nicole and hear from a panel of local supporters and volunteers about why it is important for this film to be completed.
Carlos, Juan, Roberto and Pepe endured abuse and life on

MUST END March 2935mm Presentation - Blending dark comedy and delirious Midwestern noir, Thin Ice stars Greg Kinnear as Mickey Prohaska, a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the fri

7pm Tues, April 10th & 2pm Sat, April 14th35mm Presentation - Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arr

Limited 3 DAY ENGAGEMENT NOW PLAYING through December 9th!Digital presentation - In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human tr

Special Cinema Q presentation presented by One Colorado
Tuesday, November 27th at 7pm followed by a captivating panel discussion!Digital presentation - Trans is an extraordinary documentary feature about men and women, and all the variations in between. It is about the Trans

Special Presentation Thursday, December 27th at 7:30pm
Director Dan Kapelovitz In-Person!
A scathing critique/celebration of early-’90s tabloid culture, twenty years in the making! Back in 1992, a suburban New York teenager named Amy Fisher captured the national media’s attention when she s

MUST END Thursday, August 16th!35mm presentation - Frieda Pinto soars in filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's drama Trishna, in her most revealing performance yet. Trishna (Pinto) lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan, India's largest state. As the eldest daughter, she w

MUST END Thursday, April 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - Comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment

Wednesday, December 5th at 7:30pm at the SIE FilmCenter35mm presentation - Denver's own Mile High Cinema and the Alamo Drafthouse Aspen Grove present a night of giving and cannibalism with an exclusive one-night only screening of the 1999 darkly comedic horror film RAVENOUS, directed

4pm Thurs, March 8th
Director Nisha Long via Live SkypeTwiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters is feature-length documentary by Nisha Ligon. It follows a season in the life of Tanzania's women's national football (i.e. soccer) team, affectionately nicknamed the Twiga Stars. Tanzani

Thursday, June 7 at 7pm with director Martyn Burke in-personDigital Presentation - Journalism in times of war has become an increasingly lethal and traumatic endeavor for the men and women who face constant threats to their lives and psyches. With the death toll skyrocketing from onl

Screens Friday, July 20th at 4:30pm as part of the Cinema Q Film FestivalUnited In Anger: A History of Act Up explores the story of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from the grassroots perspective—how a small group of men and women of all races and classes, came together

Kicking off our April Repertory Series, Sing It, Sister!
Presented by The Molly Brown House
7pm Tuesday, April 3rd
To Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the Molly Brown House and the Denver Film Society present The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Join us for

MUST END Thursday, October 25th at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the

Screens Friday, July 20th at 7:00pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Sponsored by National Gay & Lesbian Taskforce
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar called the Stonewall took a surprising turn when patrons decided

MUST END Thursday, December 13th at the SIE FilmCenter!Digital presentation - WAITING FOR LIGHTNING is the inspirational story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way. The film follows the journey of a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one

MUST END Thursday, November 22nd!35mm presentation - Alongside MAD MAX and WALKABOUT, WAKE IN FRIGHT is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD), the film tells the story of a British

Saturday, June 23, 1:30pm
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Set in 1944, two rival gangs of kids from different French villages engage in play war. Based on the novel by Louis Pergaud and featuring a

The Mizel Museum partners with the Denver Film Society to host teacher/broadcast journalist, Douglas Green along with two students from Carlsbad High in California, who will introduce their film, We Must Remember, and then join a panel of local survivors to engage in dialogue about their expe

MUST END May 3rd at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital Presentation - A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller from director/co-writer Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar), We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil so

Experience a soul searching and inspirational 30-day drift boat journey down the longest undammed river in the contiguous United States. Connect with colorful characters, get lost in the hypnotic cast of a fly rod, and savor silhouetted moments of fireside stories on this heartfelt river adventure.

Brand New Subtitled 35mm print Plays August 17 - 2335mm presentation - Shizuku is spending her last summer vacation before high school reading and translating foreign music into Japanese. Perusing the eclectic selection of books she has checked out from the library, her curiousity is

MUST END Thursday, September 20th at Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - The story of Eli Smith (Jesse Eisenberg), a piano prodigy, dealing with his troubled mother, Penny (Melissa Leo), and enlisting help from a hapless drug dealer, Sprinkles (Tracy Morgan), on the day he

MUST END Thursday, September 27th!Digital presentation - A handful of unforgettable characters set out on a 100-day quest to tame a totally wild mustang for a Texas competition in this stunning and poignant documentary. Among them: Charles, a Navajo grandfather out to re-capture his

5:30pm Tues Feb 28
“We are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“These indiscriminate bombings of London are a part of Hitler’s invasion plans. Little does he know of the spirit of the British nation

MUST END Thursday, July 12th at the Denver FilmCenter/ColfaxDigital presentation - American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter who is living with his estranged ex-wife. Completely broke, he accepts a job as a night guard for a local cri

Screens as part of Women + Film on Thursday, October 25 at 7pm at Denver FilmCenter
Maria Hinojosa In-PERSON!
In this "Need to Know" Election 2012 special, Maria Hinojosa visits one of the country's most surprisingly diverse communities, a home to residents from more than 40 countries who s

Thursday, April 26th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenterDigital presentation - DISH delves into North American classic diners, the "sexy restos of Montreal", Paris' haute eateries, and Tokyo's fantasy "maid bars" in an insider's look at gender, power, and the art of service. Former waitr

Plays Tuesday, August 21st at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Filmmaker In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!Mayan Renaissance is a feature length documentary which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, five hundred years of oppressi

Special Women + Film presentation Monday, May 21st at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter with Whitney Childers in-personDigital presentation - Ready To Fly is that all-too-rare, true story of a woman hero who triumphs over massive obstacles to not only achieve her dream, but to chan

7:30pm Sat, March 10th
In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British- and American-backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the

The Wonderful Family of Divas is a toe-tapping, finger-snapping look at one of America’s most musically influential families. Through one-on-one interviews and archival footage, festival regular Gary Keys introduces us to the fabulous Drinkard Singers.

BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
A dystopic science-fiction epic, World on a Wire is German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. With dashes of Kubrick, Vonnegut, and Dick, but a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noi

Breaking the Fourth Wall is a collaborative effort between the Denver Film Society and Curious Theatre Company to bridge the gap between theater, film and issues facing society today.
This film plays great before or after watching THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY, Now Playing at

Closing Night Film 7pm Sun, March 11th with Pre-Reception Beginning at 5:30pm. Sponsored by Three Lions Pub.
Andrea Arnold's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily

Special Screening! Wednesday, June 13th at 7pm
In Cooperation with the Seniors' Resource CenterDigital presentation - Get ready to rock out with the most entertaining "golden oldies" you will ever meet, a fun-loving senior citizen's choir called Young@Heart. To prepare for a show in

MUST END Thursday, August 2nd at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax35 mm Presentation - In the dramatic comedy Your Sister's Sister, Mark Duplass (co-director of Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Cyrus) stars as Jack, a slacker who's still emotionally unstable a year after hi

Screens 7pm Tues, May 8 and 2pm Sat, May 12 at the Denver FilmCenter35mm Presentation - Based on a 1940s Los Angeles murder trial, Zoot Suit follows the various members of a Mexican-American gang, led by Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez), as they're tried and sentenced to San Quent